The Men Taking Classes to Unlearn Toxic Masculinity<\/a> — For some time, Stephen Hicks had felt like something was off. ‘My relationship ended, then a lot of things started collapsing in front of me,\u2019 Hicks says.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CollegeTestical-Lock-Box-B-1.jpg\")
“He began attending therapy, which made him realize that he needed to make a bigger change: ‘I wasn\u2019t doing really terrible things, but I also wasn\u2019t being the most ideal Stephen I could be,\u2019 he says. ‘The bar is really lowered for cisgender guys.'” Do you know what “cisgender” means yet? You ever heard of “cisgender”? Well, there\u2019s transgender, and there\u2019s post-gender. Cisgender, C-I-S, means you are how you were born. So if you were born a guy, you\u2019re a cisgender male.<\/p>\n
If you were born a female but became a guy with an addadictomy, you have become a transgender male. So the butchering of the language continues. “Okay, you\u2019re born a guy.” “No, no! You\u2019re cisgender.” You might become transgender sometime. You\u2019re cis, C-I-S, gender. This guy says, “‘The bar is really lowered for cisgender guys,” meaning, you don\u2019t have much room to play around before people get mad at us.<\/p>\n
“So earlier this year, Hicks signed up for the pilot Rethink Masculinity class, a partnership between the Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center, Collective Action for Safe Spaces, and ReThink, an organization that works to prevent sexual assault. The program bills itself as a class where men ‘learn how social constructs of masculinity harm them and the people around them, and work to construct healthier masculinities.\u2019 Or, as Hicks puts it, ‘It was eight weeks of guys discussing how they can address their actions with better self-awareness and less toxicity.'”<\/p>\n
In other words, these guys are willfully signing up to be talked out of being men.<\/p>\n
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“‘We spoke of emotional labor, consent, violence, communication, empathy, and vulnerability,\u2019 he adds, noting that the last subject, in particular, was a struggle for him: ‘[I was] trained and conditioned to be tough growing up.'” What these guys are learning is that “toxic masculinity” prevents you from being vulnerable, and you had better fix it — and the way you fix it is to show your vulnerability. How do you do that? I\u2019m just asking you a question.<\/p>\n
If somebody said to you that you could improve yourself by sharing or display or expressing your vulnerability, how would you do it? What would you do? Do you know, Mr. Snerdley? What would you do? (interruption) Well… (interruption) Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! This is far more than crying. This is far more than crying! To express, to display your vulnerability — and this is with women, by the way, but not just women.<\/p>\n
But it means that when you are talking to a woman, you need to immediately share your weaknesses and your fears and your self-doubts, and this will attract her to you (theoretically) like nothing ever could. If you run around and you tell her that you\u2019ve been hurt and how and how it\u2019s preventing you from opening up because you don\u2019t like being vulnerable, so you mask it with a tough guy, “I don\u2019t care about attitude,” and she\u2019ll run for the hills! But if you tell her that you are the product of so much hurt and so much pain (sobbing), and you\u2019re open to it now, and you are aware of it, and you\u2019re not afraid of it because you\u2019re meant to suffer?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what vulnerability is.<\/p>\n
The theory is that women will swarm you — and in this, you release your toxic masculinity. Now, I have a clue for you guys that are talked into doing this. Don\u2019t do it. Do not do it. The exact opposite of what you\u2019re being told is what is going to happen to you. Women are gonna run for the hills. There is this belief that women love hurt, damaged, troubled, and vulnerable men because they need to shield them and protect them and take care of them. Uhhhh. If you\u2019re paying a woman to be with you, then it\u2019s okay to do that, because she\u2019s gonna stay where she is when did you leave. But outside of that, I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Audio sound bite number six. This is Don Lemon. This is another one of my examples of the liberal crackup — and, look, don\u2019t misunderstand. It is happening. These people are going nuts. I\u2019m not saying that they\u2019re losing. They\u2019re on the way. They\u2019re ripe, and I\u2019m just gonna keep giving you examples of it each and every day. There\u2019s no need, there\u2019s no sense in not taking advantage of this. This was last night on CNN. Don Lemon read an open letter that he wrote to Trump about his phone call to the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson.<\/p>\n
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I kind of just hate falling prey to it and getting sucked into it, which is why I wait until the latter hours of the program to get into this stuff. Meanwhile, there are other things piquing my interest out there. But before I get to them specifically, this is an interesting review. If you look at the Drudge Report today and look at the headlines — and if you know how to do this, instead of seeing each headline individually and assessing it individually, what it means. If you\u2019re able to see the pattern there — as, of course, I am able to — then a certain picture presents itself.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Food-stamps.jpg\")
That\u2019s not good! The stock market is soaring. Unemployment is down. Illegal aliens getting into the country? Fewer. All of the outward signs, the visible signs of economic progress are there and occurring each and every day, without a single Democrat being in power.